May 21, 2019 | Research Fest 2019

8:00 - 8:30 REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST (E40-356 & 366, 1 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA )

8:30 - 8:45 WELCOMING REMARKS (E40-356 & 366, 1 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA )

9:00 - 9:30 Analytical Model: Evaluating Incoterm Conversion (Room E40-356); by Mark Brown & Pratik Yadav.

Advised by Bruce ArntzenImpact of Freight Consolidation on Logistics Cost and Emissions (Room E40-366); by Ajay Mohan & Lance So. Advised by Josue Velazquez & Karla Gamez-Perez.Replenishment Policies for Retail Pharmacies in Emerging Markets (Room E40-210); by Juan Manuel Martínez & Kevin Chu. Advised by Chris Mejia. Reducing unplanned transportation costs (Room E51-372); by Nishitha Reddy Aemireddy & Xiyang Yuan. Advised by Chris Caplice.

Demand Forecasting and Inventory Management for Spare Parts (Room E51-145); by Gaurav Chawla & Vitor Miceli. Advised by Nima Kazemi.

9:40 - 10:10Increasing Fleet Utilization Through a Heuristic to Determine Backhaul Routes (Room E40-356); by Geetika Tahilyani & Shrihari Venkatesh. Advised by Karla Gamez-Perez.Economic sustainability of mango value chain (Room E40-366); by Phu Le Hai. Advised by Alexis Bateman.Beyond Pareto: Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (Room E40-210); by Nate Moison. Advised by Josue Velazquez & Sergio Caballero.Modeling large scale e-commerce distribution networks (Room E51-372); by Nelson Calero & Yao Zhang. Advised by Milena Janjevic.Switching Rules for Optimal Ordering (Room E51-145); by Shilpa Shenoy & Ai Zhao. Advised by Marina Mattos.

10:20 - 10:50The Impact of Special Events on Freight Spot Market (Room E40-356); by Olasunkanmi Famofo-Idowu & Adam Gard. Advised by David Correll & Chris Caplice.Gender Impact on small firms in Latin America (Room E40-366); by Yen-Nong Su. Advised by Josue Velazquez & Cansu Tayaksi.Improving Inventory Strategy for Consumable Material (Room E40-210); by Jake Haber. Advised by Bruce Arntzen. E-commerce and the environment: Finding the optimal location for in-store pick-up (Room E51-372); by Carla Alvarado & Yangfei Liu. Advised by Josue Velazquez & Cansu Tayaksi.U.S. Consumer Preferences for Seafood Traceability (Room E51-145); by Sunitha Ray. Advised by Alexis Bateman.

11:00 - 11:30The Impact of Product Portfolio Complexity on Fleet Size (Room E40-356); by Santiago Mollard & Sebastian Bello. Advised by Jarrod Goentzel.Behavioral Management Patterns: Small Firms’ Recipe for Growth (Room E40-366); by Fadi Abou Chacra & Joshua Rocha. Advised by Josue Velazquez & Cansu Tayaksi. Inventory Planning in Engineer-to-Order (ETO) Steel Industry (Room E40-210); by Don Guo. Advised by Nima Kazemi & Josue VelazquezHuman-Machine Interaction Design for Freight Planning Systems (Room E51-372); by Bishop Ravenel. Advised by Eva Ponce.Can DDMRP be a game-changer in Supply Chain Planning? (Room E51-145); by Léo Ducrot & Ehtesham Ahmed. Advised by Sergio Caballero & Tugba Efendigil.

11:40 - 12:10Decoupled Capacity with Powerloop (Room E40-356); by Elisa Fankhauser & Ge Li. Advised by Lars Meyer.Ebola Response Demand Forecasting (Room E40-366); by Robert Rains. Advised by Jarrod Goentzel. Managing Perishables with Stochastic Supply (Room E40-210); by Vishwanathan Parameshwaran Iyer Nurani. Advised by Nima Kazemi.Transportation Cost and Tariff Optimization (Room E51-372); by Brian O’Donnell & Kristin Pedersen. Advised by Tim Russell.Alternate Pricing Model for Transportation Contracts (Room E51-145); by Atmaja Sinha & Rakesh Thykandi. Advised by Chris Caplice.

Schedule

May 21, 2019 | Research Fest 2019

Schedule 12:10 - 1:30 LUNCH (E40-356 & 366, 1 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA )

1:40 - 2:10Horizontal Collabration in Last Mile Delivery of Online Grocery Orders (Room E40-356); by Minhui Zhang & Arun Nagarathinam. Advised by Maria Jesus Saenz & Marina Mattos.Aggregate Production Planning for Engineer-to-Order Products (Room E40-366); by Elizaveta Shafir & Cheng Cheng. Advised by Alexander Rothkopf.Game of Drones...(in the City) (Room E40-210); by Brent McCunney & Kristof Van Cauwenberghe. Advised by Mohammad Moshref Facility Location Optimization for Last-mile Delivery (Room E51-372); by Brittany Collins & Hao Wang. Advised by Sergio Caballero.Machine Learning; Worth the Price of Admission? (Room E51-145); by Burak Gundogdu & Jeffrey Maloney. Advised by Tugba Efendigil.

2:20 - 2:50Omnichannel Supply Chain Tranformation for Third Party Logistics Providers (Room E40-356); by Marion Konnerth & Neysan Kamranpour. Advised by Eva Ponce & Marina Mattos.Rebalancing Inventory across Retail Chain (Room E40-366); by Hyuk Jin Cho & Ketan Lahoti. Advised by Bruce Arntzen.Drone Delivery Systems Optimization Algorithm (Room E40-210); by Rick Kuang. Advised by Mohammad Moshref. Integrating Collection-and-Delivery Points in the Strategic Design of Last-Mile E-Commerce Distribution Networks (Room E51-372); by Himanshu Rautela. Advised by Milena Janjevic.Optimal “Green” Fleet Composition through Machine Learning (Room E51-145); by Vrushali Patil & Elissar Samaha. Advised by Josue Velazquez & Karla Gamez-Perez.

3:00 - 3:30Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain Technology for SMEs (Room E40-356); by Patara Panuparb. Advised by Inma Borrella & Jim RiceRFID & Analytics Driving Agility in Apparel Supply Chain (Room E40-366); by Peter Ting & Anil Kumar. Advised by Maria Jesus Saenz.Drone Delivery Systems: A comparative analysis in last-mile distribution (Room E40-210); by Oriol Rosales Garcia & Antonius Santoso. Advised by Mohammad Moshref. Last-Mile Distribution Network Optimization in Emerging Markets: A Case Study in São Paulo, Brazil (Room E51-372); by Oswaldo Almonacid Rivas & Kenneth Greene. Advised by Matthias Winkenbach. Predicting Shipping Time with Machine Learning (Room E51-145); by Antoine Jonquais & Florian Krempl. Advised by Roar Adland & Haiying Jia.

3:40 - 4:10Drone Delivery: Deal or No Deal (Room E40-210); by Blane Butcher & Kok Weng Lim. Advised by Justin Boutilier. Light Electric Freight Vehicles for Last-Mile Delivery (Room E51-372); by Ronald Veldman. Advised by Matthias Winkenbach.Forecasting Model for Sporadic Distributor Based Markets (Room E51-145); by Stanley Park & Ahmed Elazzamy. Advised by Tugba Efendigil.

4:20 - 4:50 Incentivizing No-Rush Delivery in Omnichannel Retail (Room E51-372); by Alison Heuser & Tabjeel Ashraf. Advised by Sina Golara. Analytics Driving Supply Chain Segmentation for Lenovo (Room E51-145); by Luiz Gosling & Javier Urrutia. Advised by Maria Jesus Saenz.

5:00 - 6:30 RECEPTION (E40-356 & 366, 1 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA )

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